lutestring
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon.
Archaic; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "There goes Mrs. Roundabout, I mean the fat lady in the luteſtring trollopee. Betvveen you and I, ſhe is but a cutler's vvife. See hovv ſhe's dreſſed, as fine as hands and pins can make her […]"
- "Lord, I have ſuch a deal to do, I ſhall ſcarce have time to ſlip on my Italian luteſting.—VVhere is this davvdle of a houſekeeper?"
- "A dressing chemise of Tiffany which she had on over a blue lutestring"
- "There are six hook-tips and 10 in the lutestring group, which was formerly treated as a separate family, Thyatiridae."
- "A quartet of moths in the subfamily Thyatirinae, known collectively as lutestrings – of which the spring-flying Frosted Green and Yellow Horned are also members."
- "Other lutestrings (3 spp., each in its own genus [n/i]), which do not have black spot on forewing and lack the black dash on wingtip."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French